On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:26:53 +0100, "Clive D. W. Feather"
wrote:

In article , Martin Rich
writes
The village I live in is a mid-70s creation. It consists of a loop road
with lots of multi-branch cul-de-sacs stretching inwards. Between them
is a network of footpaths converging on an L-shaped "spine path" with
the village shops at the apex. The paths get plenty of use for walking
and cycling, and *do* form "attractive green lanes".

This sounds as though it's more influenced by the garden city
approach, which placed some emphasis on including footpaths between
roads, than by the notion of segregating pedestrians and vehicles at
different levels.

There's no separate levels within the village itself, no. As to
influence, I believe it's called something like the "McNaughten design".


Sounds interesting - I'll try and find out more about it

Though it also sounds as though the planners sought
to offer separate pedestrian and vehicle routes between houses and
shops.

Indeed, it was claimed that all schoolchildren could get to school
without crossing *any* road (though usually they'd have to walk along
the pavement at the side of a road for some distance before reaching a
separate path). The eventual layout has a couple of situations where
this isn't quite true.


Also an interesting point. There's a footpath very close to me, in
London, which is very heavily used by primary school children in
particular. It has the effect that one or two roads see almost no car
traffic, except for access by residents and their visitors, but do
have quite a lot of pedestrian traffic, especially at the start and
end of school days. On the whole that makes for a pleasant
environment

Martin